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Faculty
William Utesch
Associate Professor
- Office: Neff Hall, Room 240C
- Phone: 260-481-6003
- Fax: 260-481-5408
- E-mail: utesch@ipfw.edu
Professional Background
Dr. Utesch was a community mental health administrator for nine years. He has worked for twenty-two years in mental health clinical supervision, and direct clinical service in Illinois, California, and Indiana. He has developed and supervised child residential, adolescent crisis, child physical abuse prevention, family reunification, and sexual abuse treatment programs. His professional interests are family systems assessment/treatment and therapist training/supervision.
Dr. Utesch received his M.Ed. in Counseling from Eastern Illinois University in 1984, and a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Purdue University in 1989. He is an Indiana Licensed School Counselor, National Certified Counselor, Indiana Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and Indiana Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He has co-developed an AAMFT accredited M.S. in Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor (MFCC) degree program at the University of San Diego, and is currently an associate professor and Chair of Professional Studies at Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. He also directs the counselor education program which offers two Masters degree options; School Counseling & Agency/Marriage and Family Therapy.
Dr. Utesch is a Past President of the Indiana Association for Marriage Family Therapy (IAMFT), and offers one of four AAMFT approved supervisor courses available in Indiana. Dr. Utesch maintains a small private practice for marriage, family, and child therapy at the Family Care Center in Fort Wayne and is a regular guest on WBCL radio’s “Mid-Morning” call-in program targeted at relational understanding. His consultations and workshops for understanding and managing self & relationships in a variety of personal and professional contexts have been given to numerous school, church, mental health, medical, and business settings.
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